Do you like fresh peanut butter? Have you ever had it? At Horrock's Famers Market in Battle Creek, Michigan they have a fresh peanut butter making machine that is one of my favorite items to stop at. You 
can put your container of various sizes right under the machine, and push the button and watch the peanut butter be made before your eyes. I find this very cool.
The following history of peanut butter I found on Wikipedia:
"A U.S. Patent issued in 1884 to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for the finished product of the process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts entered "a fluid or semi-fluid state." As the peanut product cooled, it set into what Edson explained as being "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment." Edson's patent is based on the preparation of a peanut paste as an intermediate to the production of peanut candies.
While Edson's patent does not describe the modern confection we know as peanut butter, it does show the
initial steps necessary for the production of peanut butterAlso, as an interesting tidbit, peanut butter Edson's patent does not describe the modern confection we know as peanut butter, it does show the initial steps necessary for the production of peanut butter.
J.H. Kellogg, of breakfast cereal fame, (and his brother, W.K. Kellogg) invented their own early version of peanut butter in 1895 and in 1897, J.H. Kellogg secured U.S. Patent 580,787 for his "Process of Preparing Nutmeal," which produced a "pasty adhesive substance" that Kellogg called "nut-butter."
Dr. Ambrose Straub, a physician in St. Louis, Missouri, pursued a method for providing toothless elderly with protein in the 1890s. His peanut-butter-making machine was patented in 1903."
So Battle Creek, Michigan has a significant role in the history of peanut butter, besides the internationally known reputation for breakfast cereal. The Kellogg brothers had their hand in a lot of natural foods we still enjoy today throughout the world.
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